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From 50 Years Ago: On the Asians in East Africa

Vol. 58, Issue No. 2, 14 Jan, 2023

Vol VIII, No 2 JANUARY 13, 1973

From 50 Years Ago: Bureaucracy and Land Reform

Vol. 57, Issue No. 40, 01 Oct, 2022

Vol VII, No 40 SEPTEMBER 30, 1972

In Pursuit of an Ideal Bureaucracy

Vol. 57, Issue No. 40, 01 Oct, 2022

The concern for an ideal bureaucracy has been widely discussed in the public domain with regards to a particular response that was given by a senior administrative functionary to a young female student from Patna, Bihar.

On India’s Political Administrators

Vol. 57, Issue No. 10, 05 Mar, 2022
Pradeep Nayak

This is in response to Rekha Saxena’s editorial comment “The All India Services and Cadre Deputation” (EPW, 29 January 2022), in which she has expressed her apprehension about the implications on federal governance should the proposed amendment on deputation and transfer rules for the Indian Admi

Using Public Procurement Strategically

Vol. 56, Issue No. 38, 18 Sep, 2021
Yugank Goyal

The article examines policy decisions and practices in public procurement in India during the pandemic, and finds that bureaucracy could not use public procurement strategically and relied upon archaic and centralised management of procurement to (mis)handle the pandemic. The article also offers some lessons from China’s procurement designs and calls for a major reform in this sector in India.

 

Not an Absent Dialogue

Vol. 56, Issue No. 26-27, 26 Jun, 2021
Jawahar Bhagwat

The Absent Dialogue: Politicians, Bureaucrats, and the Military in India edited by Anit Mukherjee, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2020; pp xvii + 313, ₹1,100.

​The Ballad of Raisina Hill

Vol. 56, Issue No. 18, 01 May, 2021
Alok Sheel

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The Researcher’s Guide to the Indian Bureaucracy

Vol. 56, Issue No. 4, 23 Jan, 2021
Tanvi V Deshpande

A researcher reflects on approaching and gathering information from the vast and diverse bureaucracy of the Indian state.

Forest Rights Act in Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh

Vol. 55, Issue No. 4, 25 Jan, 2020
Aditi Vajpeyi, Vaishnavi Rathore

The emergence of the Forest Rights Act reasserted the vitality of the role people play in conservation and management of natural resources and carving out legal channels for recognition of their forest rights. But, in Himachal Pradesh, the FRA suffers at the hands of a bureaucracy that has buried it under the weight of colonial power structures. The conflicting narratives from Kinnaur are discussed, where instead of being recognised under the FRA, the tribals’ identity and forest dependence are being ripped away from them.

 

There Is a Glaring Gender Bias in Death Registrations in India

Vol. 54, Issue No. 51, 28 Dec, 2019
In the absence of a reliable Civil Registration System in India, the sample registration system, beginning in 1970, has been the only source of information that allows us to track the Sustainable Development Goals, calculate the human development index, and measure sex ratios. Since 2001, however, there has been no attempt to examine the quality of the sample registration system. In this context, the present article carries out such an exercise and finds that there was an undercounting of deaths in India by around 4.3% for males and 11.3% for females during 2001 – 10.

A Tale of Tangled Lines

Vol. 53, Issue No. 44, 03 Nov, 2018
T R Raghunandan

​A Bureaucrat Fights Back: The Complete Story of Indian Reforms by Pradip Baijal, Noida: HarperCollins, 2016; pp xvi +366, ₹ 499.

Has the IAS Failed the Nation?

Vol. 53, Issue No. 25, 23 Jun, 2018
Naresh Chandra Saxena

The decision to recruit experts from the open market in certain departments at the level of joint secretaries is not enough to radically professionalise the civil service. Internal specialisation must be promoted by insisting on stable tenure in the states so that there is incentive for the Indian Administrative Service officers to acquire expertise in their chosen sectors. Also, the IAS officers should take the entry of the outsiders as a challenge, because if they do not improve their performance, there could be repetition of such recruitment every year.

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